One of the secrets of a good disembark is to not be rushed for time - no rushing for an early overseas departure and no rushing to be first off the ship. An easy, relaxed breakfast, only hand luggage to think about and 30" on the Promenade Deck means our luggage is all that's left of "Gold 3" in the terminal, so no scrambling search required. Another Customs Declaration (4 for Japan now), a quick passage through Immigration and pretty well straight into a taxi to YCAT (Yokohama City Air Terminal).
Wheeled the cases 80m and they were loaded onto an Airport Limousine Bus for the 100km express road trip to Narita Airport. Sunday traffic going our way was reasonably light and we beat the timetabled arrival time by 10". A coffee in the airport, then out to our hotel shuttle bus for the 2km trip to the Narita Tobu Airport Hotel. Narita is surrounded by a green belt with numerous very large, and well spread out, hotels. The Tobu is pretty much a one night affair only (and used by lots of air crew) - fairly basic but with big rooms by Japanese standards, and complimentary shuttles. It has a strict 2pm check in policy, which I knew about, so we had bit of a wait but were second checked in.
Some repacking/re-sorting and then the shuttle to the Narita (township) Station and the big Aeon Mall (seemed a bit like a mini tour of the area) about 5km away. Quite a big Mall and we did not see it all - but the supermarket was massive at around 150m x 50m floor area, and its range of products seemed unlimited.
Had dinner in a restaurant which specialised in tempura dishes, very nice (the pickled vegetables were bottomless, as were the pickled squid entrails - although, in the entrail stakes, I was not able to match the local girl on the next table!!!).
Shuttled back to the hotel for final packing and an early night, ready to shuttle to the airport at 7.30am.
Sunday, 1 September 2019
Disembarkation on Sunday 1 September
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